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QOTW: "Knowing is better than guessing." -- Derk Qwen

"I am told that regexp matching with mixed-greediness is deterministic
and can be predicted by some people.  I was also told about the Easter
bunny." -- Donald Arseneau


POTW: RBTree 1.1.2: Red-black trees for Tcl, by Philip Smolen:  "Roughly
speaking, this is a cross  between an array and an ordered list.  It can
efficiently find a value in the tree, like an array.  But it can also
find the closest value to value that is not in the tree, or all the
values between two values, like an ordered list."
    http://www.trade-ideas.com/home/phil/RBTree/RBTree.html


Comp.lang.tcl maintains its high signal-to-noise ratio through a fairly 
slow week:
   "You got forks in my threads!"
   "You got threads in my forks!"
   Is mixing threads and forks a tasty combination, or a recipe for 
   disaster?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3668bf810b842b9a
   
   C has its asterisks, Tcl has its dollar signs, and they can be just as 
   confusing:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=89172343f5c0e6c2
   Don't just sprinkle them around until it works, know the 11 rules (The 
   Endekalogue):
        http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/Tcl.htm
   
   When are interps like chickens? When they keep running after you cut 
   off their head!
   Tcl Bug 495830 causes problems with bytecode compiled [while] loops:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9381cc9b2b01b1ea
   
   Don't even THINK about polling when you can use fileevents instead!
   For instance, when "checking if processes have finished":
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c511d5232dae2690
   
   Deep regexp voodoo exhibited in "Regexp across many lines":
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8394c32222d2390f
   

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki activity:
  From the recently added and edited pages of last week, a fair number have
  a common theme: "make the computer look more human." For instance:
  
  - Two pages on recognising handwritten text, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1770> and
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9094>. The approaches are different, yet similar.
  
  - Displaying continuous data as analogue widgets rather than numbers,
    three forms of dials, all described at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9107>
  
  - Choosing the date in "any" language you like, a little GUI at 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1816>
  
  Then pages on more technical subjects:
  - A comparison of TclDOM and tDOM - both have their uses and advantages
    as shown in <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9098>
  
  - An example of threads in Tcl, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9100> contains 
    a small but instructive example
  
  - Transferring files and sending messages does not have to be complicated
    - <http://wiki.tcl/tk/9102> illustrates how to do it in pure Tcl.
  

Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
    boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things 
    Tcl.
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/969

    ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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